Shelley M. Brown, PhD, MPH

Background

上海

Courses Taught

Selected Publications

• Brown S., Sprague C., & Lindsay, A.L. (2022). Understanding Perinatal Mental Health as a Global Health Governance Concern in South Africa: Health Provider Perspectives. Global Public Health 17:12, 3519-3532.
• Brown S, Sprague C. Health care providers’ perceptions of barriers to perinatal mental healthcare in South Africa. BMC Public Health. 2021;21(1):1905. doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11954-8.
• Sprague C, Brown S.M., Simon SE, McMahan LD, & Konkle-Parker D. (2020). Experience of religion and spirituality among socially marginalised people living with HIV in Mississippi. Culture, Health and Sexuality:1-15. doi:10.1080/13691058.2020.1758345.
• Brown S, MacNaughton G, & Sprague C. (2020). A Right-to-Health Lens on Perinatal Mental Health Care in South Africa. Health and Human Rights;22(2):125-138.
• Sprague C, Brown S.M., Simon S, McMahan LD, Kassiel I, & Konkle-Parker D. (2020). Towards ending the US HIV epidemic by 2030: Understanding social determinants of health and HIV in Mississippi. Global Public Health;15(1):31-51. doi:10.1080/17441692.2019.1631366.
• Pantalone, D. W., Scanlon, M. L., Brown, S. M., Radhakrishnan, B., & Sprague, C. (2018). Unmet Mental Health and Social Service Needs of Formerly Incarcerated Women Living with HIV in the Deep South. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 29(5), 712-727. doi:10.1016/j.jana.2018.04.003
• Sprague, C., Radhakrishnan, B., Brown, S. M., Sommers, T., & Pantalone, D. W. (2017). Southern Women at Risk: Narratives of Familial and Social HIV Risk in Justice-Involved U.S. Women in Alabama. Violence & Victims, 32(4), 728-753. doi:10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-16-00077
• Sprague, C., & Brown, S. M. (2017). Local and Global HIV Aging Demographics and Research. In R. F. DeMarco, & M. Brennan-Ing (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology and Geriatrics (pp. 1-10). New York, NY and Boston, MA: Karger. doi:10.1159/000448532
• DeMarco, R. F., Brennan-Ing, M., Sprague, C., & Brown, S. M. (2017). Ageism, Aging and HIV: Community Responses to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support. Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology and Geriatrics. In R. F. DeMarco, & M. Brennan-Ing (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology and Geriatrics (Vol. 42, pp. 234-239). New York: Karger. doi:10.1159/000448567
• Sprague, C., Woollett, N., Parpart, J., Hatcher, A. M., Sommers, T., Brown, S., & Black, V. (2015). When nurses are also patients: Intimate partner violence and the health system as an enabler of women’s health and agency in Johannesburg Global Public Health, 0(0), 1–15.
• Brown, S.M., Monahan, A, Daniels, J.E. (2013) Type-2 diabetes in Belize: A cross-sectional study and holistic approach to increasing health education: Building Community Capacity: Case Examples from Around the World. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Selected Presentations

• International Marce Society, Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in low and middle-income countries: Gaps between policy and practice (poster), 2022, London, England
• American Public Health Association Annual Conference, Early identification of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in low and middle-income countries, 2021, Denver, CO
• International Marce Society, Perinatal Mental Health Provider Training and Education in LMICs: Lessons from South Africa, 2020, Iowa City, IA.
• American Public Health Association Annual Conference, Perinatal Mental Health and Rights-based Policy Approaches, 2019, Philadelphia, PA
• Eastern Sociological Society, Mini-Conference in Global Health, The politics of neglect and implications for the global health discourse: perinatal mental health in South Africa, 2018.
• Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, A Life Course Approach to Mental Health and Post-Release Adjustment in Southern Women with HIV, 2015
• Panelist, 50 Years Later: A Discussion on Voting Rights and Mass Incarceration in 2015
• University of Massachusetts Boston, College of Nursing and Health Sciences Research and Scholarship Day, Poster Presentation: When Nurses are Also Patients, 2014
• Brown, S.M., Monahan, A, Daniels, J.E. (2012) Type-2 diabetes in Belize: A cross-sectional study and holistic approach to increasing health education. American Public Health Association 140th Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, CA (Accepted)
• Onyeachom, U.N., Njepuome, N, Brown, S. (2011) Electronic data capture in a resource constrained environment : A case study of Abuja Heart Study. American Public Health Association 139th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Washington, D.C.
• Brown, S. (2011) Partnering with the Community: Assessing the Impact on Undergraduate Health Practicum on Community Health. Community Campus Partnerships for Health CU Expo, Waterloo, Canada.

Professional Activities and Awards

• Sargent College Representative, Sargent Faculty Council, 2019-current
• BU Pardee Center, Faculty Research Fellow, 2019-2021
• BU Center for Teaching and Learning STEM Faculty Fellow, 2019-2020
• International Marce Society, Member, 2019-present
• 2020 Mom, Influencer Advisory Board member, 2019-present
• Clinical Assistant Professor Faculty Search Committee, Chair, 2020
• Tenure Track – Assistant Professor Faculty Search Committee, Member, 2018
• UMass Boston Center for Peace, Democracy and Development, Fellow, 2016-present
• Fellow at the Center for Peace, Democracy and Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston, 2016-present
• Sargent International Service Learning, Director, 2014-Present
• American Public Health Association (APHA), Member 2014-present